Ogawa was killed in an accident on lap 27 of a Japanese Formula 3000 race held at Suzuka in May 1992. Ogawa aimed to overtake Andrew Gilbert-Scott's car on the main straight, but the latter held his position while Ogawa moved slightly to the side. He clipped the rear left wheel and the front of his car became lodged in the rear bodywork. Both went down the straight at speed and went into the gravel trap, which was insufficient in slowing down either car. Gilbert-Scott spun, hit the tyre wall and flipped, landing upside-down. Ogawa went in nose-first, hit a mound in the gravel trap and was launched over the tyre barrier, hitting a high-fence supporting pole. Both cars were wrecked and the race was stopped immediately. As a result of the accident at least one cameraman, several photographers, and Gilbert-Scott all sustained injuries. Ogawa was freed but had suffered severe leg, head and neck injuries and was pronounced dead on the way to hospital.[5]

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Japan
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Japan is a sovereign island nation in Eastern Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies off the eastern coast of the Asia Mainland and stretches from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea, the kanji that make up Japans name mean sun origin. 日 can be read as ni and means sun while 本 can be read as hon, or pon, Japan is often referred to by the famous epithet Land of the Rising Sun in reference to its Japanese name. Japan is an archipelago consisting of about 6,852 islands. The four largest are Honshu, Hokkaido, Kyushu and Shikoku, the country is divided into 47 prefectures in eight regions. Hokkaido being the northernmost prefecture and Okinawa being the southernmost one, the population of 127 million is the worlds tenth largest. Japanese people make up 98. 5% of Japans total population, approximately 9.1 million people live in the city of Tokyo, the capital of Japan. Archaeological research indicates that Japan was inhabited as early as the Upper Paleolithic period, the first written mention of Japan is in Chinese history texts from the 1st century AD. Influence from other regions, mainly China, followed by periods of isolation, from the 12th century until 1868, Japan was ruled by successive feudal military shoguns who ruled in the name of the Emperor. Japan entered into a period of isolation in the early 17th century. The Second Sino-Japanese War of 1937 expanded into part of World War II in 1941, which came to an end in 1945 following the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Japan is a member of the UN, the OECD, the G7, the G8, the country has the worlds third-largest economy by nominal GDP and the worlds fourth-largest economy by purchasing power parity. It is also the worlds fourth-largest exporter and fourth-largest importer, although Japan has officially renounced its right to declare war, it maintains a modern military with the worlds eighth-largest military budget, used for self-defense and peacekeeping roles. Japan is a country with a very high standard of living. Its population enjoys the highest life expectancy and the third lowest infant mortality rate in the world, in ancient China, Japan was called Wo 倭. It was mentioned in the third century Chinese historical text Records of the Three Kingdoms in the section for the Wei kingdom, Wa became disliked because it has the connotation of the character 矮, meaning dwarf. The 倭 kanji has been replaced with the homophone Wa, meaning harmony, the Japanese word for Japan is 日本, which is pronounced Nippon or Nihon and literally means the origin of the sun. The earliest record of the name Nihon appears in the Chinese historical records of the Tang dynasty, at the start of the seventh century, a delegation from Japan introduced their country as Nihon

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Fuji Speedway
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Fuji Speedway is a motorsport race track standing in the foothills of Mount Fuji, in Oyama, Suntō District, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. It was built in the early 1960s, in the 1980s, Fuji Speedway was used for the FIA World Sportscar Championship and national racing. Originally managed by Mitsubishi Estate Co. Fuji Speedway was acquired by Toyota Motor Corporation in 2000, the circuit hosted the Formula One Japanese Grand Prix in 2007, after an absence of 30 years, replacing the Suzuka Circuit, owned by Honda. After Fuji Speedway hosted the 2008 race, the Japanese Grand Prix returned to Suzuka for the 2009-onward races, Fuji Speedway is known for having one of the longest straights in motorsport tracks, at 1.475 km in length. The circuit has FIA Grade 1 license, Fuji Speedway Corporation was established in 1963, as Japan NASCAR Corporation. At first, the circuit was planned to hold NASCAR-style races in Japan, therefore, the track was originally designed to be a 4 km high-banked superspeedway, but there was not enough money to complete the project and thus only one of the bankings was ever designed. Mitsubishi Estate Co. invested in the circuit and took the management right on October 1965, converted to a road course, the circuit opened in December 1965 and proved to be somewhat dangerous with the banked turn regularly resulting in major accidents. Vic Elford recalls, In 1969 I spent two months in Japan doing a test contract for Toyota and their Toyota 7, which along with a big Nissan, was destined for CanAm. My last testing and then the subsequent Sports Car GP were at Fuji, the reason that banking was so horrific, was that at the end of the straight we went over a blind crest at around 190/200 mph and dropped into the banking. At other tracks you climb up the banking, One of the results was that although there were many brave Japanese drivers there were not too many with great skill and the death toll from that one corner was horrendous. In 1966, the track hosted a USAC Indy Car non-championship race, the track had a 24-hour race in 1967. The speedway brought the first Formula One race to Japan at the end of the 1976 season, the race had a dramatic World Championship battle between James Hunt and Niki Lauda, and in awful rainy conditions, Hunt earned enough points to win the title. Mario Andretti won the race, with Lauda withdrawing due to the dangerous conditions, there was less celebration after the second race in 1977 as Gilles Villeneuve was involved in a crash that killed two spectators on the side of the track, leading to Formula One leaving the speedway. When Japan earned another race on the F1 schedule ten years later, F1 didnt return to Fuji until 2007. Fuji remained a sports car racing venue and FIA World Sportscar Championship visited the track between 1982–1988 and it was often used for national races. Speeds continued to be high, and two chicanes were added to the track, one just past the first hairpin corner, the second at the entry to the very long. But even with changes the main feature of the track remained its approximately 1.5 km long straight. The long pit straight has also utilised for drag racing

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1992 World Sportscar Championship season
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The 1992 Sportscar World Championship season was the 40th and final season of FIA World Sportscar Championship motor racing. It featured the 1992 FIA Sportscar World Championship, which was contested over a six race series ran from 26 April to 18 October 1992. The championship was open to Group C Sportscars, the Drivers Championship was won jointly by Yannick Dalmas and Derek Warwick and the Teams Championship by Peugeot Talbot Sport. The FIA Cup for Drivers was awarded to Ferdinand de Lesseps, from the start, the 1992 season was in doubt. With this, the FIA allowed the season to move forward and this formula of engine equalisation took over the series, eliminating any previous engine that did not fit into the 3.5 L category. Porsche already had an F1 engine in their 3512 unit used by Footwork, porsche, suffering financially at the time, decided that it was no longer worth not only improving the 3512, but also replacing the 962 chassis, and decided not to return. Mazda, having accomplished their goal of winning the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1991 with their rotary engine, were left without the ability to use their rotary engine anymore in 1992. Since Mazda entered sportscar racing mostly to push their rotary designs, Mazda decided to continue on into 1992 for advancement of the overall brand, mazdaspeed bought customer versions of the Jaguar XJR-14 and slightly modified them into the Mazda MXR-01 while the engines were customer Judd GV V10s. This effort saved large amounts of money for the company while keeping their name involved in the sport, of the teams that already had compliant 3.5 L cars racing in 1991, their continuation into 1992 varied. Mercedes-Benz, alongside partner Sauber, pushed ahead with plans for a car in 1992, development of the C292 was underway, as was construction of a new set of Flat-12s. However, after various faults in the construction of the engines in 1991, further problems led to large losses for the company. Customer XJR-14s were promised for 1992 from newcomers RMR racing as well as Gee Pee Cars, other teams which had previously used the 962 also failed to return, including Kremer Racing and Team Salamin Primagaz. Courage Compétition was unable to find the money to continue development of their own chassis, konrad Motorsport, whose KM-011 chassis was also lackluster in 1991, claimed they were attempting to push on with Lamborghini backing into 1992. Euro Racing found enough cash to replace their ageing Spice chassis with the new Lola T92/10s with Judd powerplants, Chamberlain Engineering also planned to continue as the factory backed Spice Engineering squad. Peugeot and Toyota, who had campaigned their 905 and TS010s respectively, both cars underwent evolutionary changes in preparation for 1992, while the basic chassis and engines remained the same. A revival of the BRM name was announced for 1992, using their own newly built P351 chassis. When the 1992 season was approved in December 1991, the FIA published a ten race calendar for the season, composed of 1000 km and 500 km races. By January 1992, the FIA shortened the calendar to eight events, with the Monza, magny-Cours was also brought in to replace some fly-away events

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Aguri Suzuki
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Aguri Suzuki is a Japanese former racing driver. He participated in 88 Formula One Grands Prix, and his most notable achievement in racing was 3rd place at the 1990 Japanese Grand Prix. Suzuki then became involved in ownership, with interests firstly in the Japanese Formula Nippon Championship. Most notably however, he was the owner of the Super Aguri F1 team and he then went on to form Team Aguri, which raced in Formula E from 2014 to 2016. Suzuki began racing karts in 1972, at the age of 12, in 1978 he won the Japanese kart championship and in 1979 made his debut in the Japanese Formula Three championship. He continued in karting and in 1981 was again Japanese Kart Champion, in 1983 he finished second in the All-Japan F3 series, driving a Hayashi-Toyota. He then turned to touring car racing and, driving for the Nissan factory team won the Japanese title in 1986, the same year he made his debut in Japanese F2 and drove in the Le Mans 24 Hours. In 1987 he finished runner-up in the Japanese F3000 series, winning one race, in 1988, driving a March-Yamaha he won the title with three wins. In 1988, Suzuki raced in European F3000 with Footwork, before he debuted in Formula One on October 30 at his home race, replacing the ill Yannick Dalmas in the Larrousse-Lola. Zakspeed, who were using Yamaha engines, hired Suzuki for 1989, for 1990 and 1991, he drove again for Larrousse. Three sixth-places were dwarfed by 3rd place at Suzuka – the first ever podium for an Asian driver in F1 – which turned him into a local hero and he also set the second fastest lap, and observers began to think seriously about a Japanese contender in the series. The 1990 season would prove the pinnacle of Suzukis racing career, in 1992 and 1993, he was at Footwork alongside Michele Alboreto and then Derek Warwick, but both usually outperformed him. He shared a Ligier with Martin Brundle in 1995, but only scored one point in his races, Suzuka had been inextricably linked to Suzukis F1 career and irony played its part in ensuring that was where it ended. A massive crash in practice caused an injury which saw him miss the race. In F1, Suzuki achieved one podium and scored a total of eight championship points, at the time he retired, he was the second most successful Japanese driver ever in F1 after Satoru Nakajima, but Takuma Sato and Kamui Kobayashi has since passed them both. He later moved on to JGTC and remained involved in Japanese driver development and they race a Honda HSV-10 GT in the GT500 class. From 2006 Suzuki ran the Super Aguri F1 Formula One team with the backing of Honda and he managed to put together his new team in just four and half months from his initial announcement on 1 November 2005. The team made its debut at the Bahrain Grand Prix on 12 March 2006, on 6 May 2008, after competing in the opening four races of the season, the team withdrew from Formula One due to financial problems

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Formula Nippon
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Super Formula, formerly known as Formula Nippon, is a type of formula racing and the top level of single-seater racing in Japan. Formula Nippon evolved from the Japanese Formula 2000 series begun in 1973 by way of the Japanese Formula Two, for the most part, the Japanese racing series have closely followed their European counterparts in terms of technical regulations, but there have been some important exceptions. In Japan, though touring and sports car racing was popular through the 1960s. Even the Japanese Grand Prix lost its popularity after changing its format from touring/sports car racing to formula car racing in 1971, the series was created based on the European Formula Two Championship. But the JAF approved use of purpose built racing engines was different from the European F2 series which only allowed race engines based on production models. Due to this difference, the series did not fit in with the Formula Two regulations in those days, therefore, the series was renamed Formula 2000, not Formula Two. The revised Formula Two regulation in 1976 removed the restriction about engines which had limited the use of engines based on production models. With this change the reasoning behind the name Formula 2000 disappeared and it led to the series being renamed the All-Japan Formula Two Championship from 1978. When European Formula Two ended in 1984, its Japanese counterpart did not follow suit immediately, the JAF considered starting a new Formula Two series from 1988. However, all entrants ran Formula 3000 cars in 1987, so, the 1987 Formula Two Championship was cancelled due to no entry of any cars for that format. Switching to the open Formula 3000 standard in 1987, the All-Japan Formula 3000 Championship started in 1988, once again, Japanese and European regulations paralleled one another until 1996, when the International Formula 3000 series became a one-make format to lower costs. Thanks to the economy and Formula One-fad in Japan, the series had many entrants. It attracted many promising young drivers outside of Japan to compete in the series, inevitably, the end of such phenomena led to the decline of the series. In the mid-1990s, the Japanese Formula broke away, changing the form of the series to Formula Nippon, the new Japan Race Promotion, formed by Fuji Television, became the promoter with the recognition of the series by the JAF as the Authority Sport Nationale of Japan. In the 2000s, sports car racing became popular in Japan. The 2006 season got off to one of the strangest starts in motorsport history, because of heavy rain, the opener at Fuji was called off after two safety car laps, and Benoît Tréluyer was awarded the win with half points awarded. Until 2002, Formula Nippon was a formula, where a variety of chassis builders. Chassis were supplied by Lola, Reynard, and G-Force, while Mugen-Honda supplied the vast majority of the engines

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Champion
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A champion is the victor in a challenge, contest or competition. Their champions can be styled, e. g. national champion. In a broader sense, nearly any sort of competition can be considered a championship, thus, there are championships for many non-sporting competitions such as spelling bees or wargames. In this context, it is used as a noun and it is also possible to champion a cause. In an ideological sense, encompassing religion, a champion may be an evangelist, or the champion may merely make a strong case for a new corporate division to a resistant board of directors. Such a champion may take on responsibility for publicizing the project, but in this case he or she is beyond a simple promoter. The word is used as a verb. The practice is controversial, and economists mostly dont believe its beneficial and this reaches its most literal meaning in a trial by combat, in which each combatant champions the cause of one side of the trial. A Kings Champion is appointed for purposes at the coronation of an English Monarch. World Champion is a used to denote a winner of a World championship in a particular sport. Being a champion at any sport or game requires an amount of focus, discipline, drive and complete dedication. The dictionary definition of champion at Wiktionary Champion

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Kazuyoshi Hoshino
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Kazuyoshi Hoshino is a Japanese former racing driver and businessman. Hoshinos nickname was the fastest man/guy in Japan and he won the Japanese motocross national championships in the 90cc and 125cc classes for Kawasaki in 1968 before switching to cars as a Nissan factory driver in 1969. Hoshino participated in two Formula One Grands Prix, debuting on 24 October 1976 at the Japanese Grand Prix, driving a Tyrrell-Ford for Heros Racing, he retired having used up his tyre supply. He returned in 1977 and once entered the Japanese Grand Prix driving for Heros Racing. He finished in eleventh place driving a year-old Kojima-Ford and he scored no championship points in his Formula 1 career. His only major championship win was in the 1985 World Sportscar Championship round at the Fuji 1000 race. Hoshino won the Japanese Formula 2000 championship in 1975 and 1977 and he then competed in the Japanese Formula 3000 championship, winning that title in 1987,1990 and 1993. Hoshino also dominated the Fuji Grand Champion Series in the 1970s and 1980s and he won five titles in 1978,1982,1984,1985 and 1987, collecting 28 wins and 42 podiums. Like his compatriot, Masahiro Hasemi, he continued his racing for Nissan. Hoshino drove a Nissan R90C with Toshio Suzuki to win the 1990 Suzuka 1000 race, Hoshino and Suzuki also won the All Japan Sports Prototype Championship in 1991 and 1992. Along with Nissan Motorsports teammates Aguri Suzuki and Masahiko Kageyama, Hoshino drove a Nissan R390 GT1 to a finish at the 199824 Hours of Le Mans. Hoshino retired from racing in 2002 and now continues to run his own Super GT team and his own Nissan specialised aftermarket parts company, since 2003, his racing team has won the Formula Nippon championship seven times in eight years. His son, Kazuki Hoshino, competes in Super GT, driving for his fathers team and you can help by expanding it

Japan
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Japan is a sovereign island nation in Eastern Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies off the eastern coast of the Asia Mainland and stretches from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea, the kanji that make up Japans name mean sun origin. 日 can be read as ni and means sun while 本 can be read as hon, or pon, Japan is often referr

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The Golden Hall and five-storey pagoda of Hōryū-ji, among the oldest wooden buildings in the world, National Treasures, and a UNESCO World Heritage Site

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Samurai warriors face Mongols, during the Mongol invasions of Japan. The Kamikaze, two storms, are said to have saved Japan from Mongol fleets.

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Samurai could kill a commoner for the slightest insult and were widely feared by the Japanese population. Edo period, 1798

Fuji Speedway
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Fuji Speedway is a motorsport race track standing in the foothills of Mount Fuji, in Oyama, Suntō District, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. It was built in the early 1960s, in the 1980s, Fuji Speedway was used for the FIA World Sportscar Championship and national racing. Originally managed by Mitsubishi Estate Co. Fuji Speedway was acquired by Toyota M

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The abandoned "30° Bank" of the old track

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Fuji International Speedway

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Rebuilt grandstand in the 2000s

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Main gate of the circuit

1992 World Sportscar Championship season
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The 1992 Sportscar World Championship season was the 40th and final season of FIA World Sportscar Championship motor racing. It featured the 1992 FIA Sportscar World Championship, which was contested over a six race series ran from 26 April to 18 October 1992. The championship was open to Group C Sportscars, the Drivers Championship was won jointly

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Peugeot Talbot Sport won the Teams Championship with the Peugeot 905

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Toyota Team Tom's placed second with the Toyota TS010

Aguri Suzuki
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Aguri Suzuki is a Japanese former racing driver. He participated in 88 Formula One Grands Prix, and his most notable achievement in racing was 3rd place at the 1990 Japanese Grand Prix. Suzuki then became involved in ownership, with interests firstly in the Japanese Formula Nippon Championship. Most notably however, he was the owner of the Super Ag

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In 2008, as the supervisor of ARTA.

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Suzuki demonstrates his Larrousse - Lola 90 at Suzuka in 2012 - the scene of his podium finish 22 years earlier.

Formula Nippon
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Super Formula, formerly known as Formula Nippon, is a type of formula racing and the top level of single-seater racing in Japan. Formula Nippon evolved from the Japanese Formula 2000 series begun in 1973 by way of the Japanese Formula Two, for the most part, the Japanese racing series have closely followed their European counterparts in terms of te

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The previous Formula Nippon chassis, the Swift FN09 (also known as the Swift 017.n), introduced in the 2009 season and raced until the end of the 2013 season.

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Super Formula

Champion
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A champion is the victor in a challenge, contest or competition. Their champions can be styled, e. g. national champion. In a broader sense, nearly any sort of competition can be considered a championship, thus, there are championships for many non-sporting competitions such as spelling bees or wargames. In this context, it is used as a noun and it

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Final Day of the 2009 season, Fitzroy celebrate their first championship in nine years.

Kazuyoshi Hoshino
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Kazuyoshi Hoshino is a Japanese former racing driver and businessman. Hoshinos nickname was the fastest man/guy in Japan and he won the Japanese motocross national championships in the 90cc and 125cc classes for Kawasaki in 1968 before switching to cars as a Nissan factory driver in 1969. Hoshino participated in two Formula One Grands Prix, debutin